I can't believe this was a year ago

Japan 2007


our team before we went =)


J-House!! the church we worked with and stayed at for the 5 weeks we were in Japan


one of our main ministries was Funky Club. Funky Club is an international friendship circle which meets for about 50 minutes once a week.   There are 4 F’s to Funky Club: Friends, Food, Fun and Funky Talk. First, we split into D Groups (discussion groups). In these groups we introduce ourselves, share about our week and answer two questions that are related to that day’s Funky Talk. After D Groups, someone on my team would give a Funky Talk.  A Funky Talk is a funny story that happened to the speaker, with a moral.  After Funky Talk we would have a one minute English lesson.




On Fridays, J House would host Funky Party which is a larger version of Funky Club.  It is a time when all the Funky Clubs from the different universities come together.


We would start out with (free) dinner, which would be authentic Japanese food made by the J House women. SOOO good.




The Door drama we performed


Jumping Worship!


On Mondays, our team would go to the homeless shelter.  We would give testimonies and sermons and perform songs and dramas. 


ragman skit


At the end of the night, the homeless men would line up and we would distribute bread and sandwiches to them.


Handing our flyers was a regular activity for us. It was one of the ways people found out about the different events we would be holding


Praying for souls at Umeda Station


One Saturday our team went to Kyoto and was able to witness the gods that the Japanese people believe in. This was at a Shinto shrine


Buddhist Temple


Praying for the Japanese people who believe in false gods.




Another form of ministry that our team did, was English Lessons.  We held English lessons at J House twice a week for two-and-a-half hours.  During that time we would go over Pronounciation, Listening and Speaking and Reading Comprehension. We would use passages from the Bible for our Reading Comprehension.





















our nights always ended like this:


sharing


crying out for souls


circle up

definitely the best part of every day....its where we did all of our work!! =)


our team in our yukatas that Katsuya San's (pastor of J-House) mom bought us!


everyone!!

and now...for some fun team photos =)


cleaning the floors of J-House


clown car!


juniors!! (now SENIORS!!) whatt whatt :D

Annie&Cassie photoshoot at one of the universities:





by far, the funniest picture. Pjoes scaring frances and irene! hahahah :P